May Day: Immigrants Rights Resources

For this May Day, DSA has endorsed Movimiento Cosecha’s call for a Día Sin Inmigrantes (Day Without Immigrants). DSA local groups from New York to California are working with them and other immigrants’ rights group active in their communities.

You can look up your local DSA group here to find out what May Day activities they’re planning. Today is just the beginning. There will be ongoing actions throughout the month, so check back regularly!

You can join in the massive strikes, boycotts, and other actions beginning May 1st. You can help from home too. Check out this blog post for more about May Day actions and immigrants' rights. You can learn about DSA's Immigrants' Rights committee there too. And download your printable sign here. You can put this in your window, bring it to rallies, or share it with friends.

Working together, we fight back — against the ban and against the wall, and move forward for us all. Sí, se puede!

Join DSA members Eric Brasure and Brendan Hamill to discuss the British film Pride (2014). It’s 1984, British coal miners are on strike, and a group of gays and lesbians in London bring the queer community together to support the miners in their fight. Based on the true story of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners. The film is available for rent on YouTube, Amazon, and iTunes. 8 ET/7 CT/6 MT/5 PT.

Join DSA member and labor historian Susan Hirsch in discussing Union Maids(1976). Nominated for an Academy Award, this documentary follows three Chicago labor organizers (Kate Hyndman, Stella Nowicki, and Sylvia Woods) active beginning in the 1930s. The filmmakers were members of the New American Movement (a precursor of DSA), and the late Vicki Starr (aka Stella Nowicki) was a longtime member of Chicago DSA and the Chicago Women's Liberation Union. It’s available free on YouTube, though sound quality is poor. 8ET/7CT/6MT/5PT.

DSA was concerned to find out that the company that provides our website and online organizing infrastructure, NationBuilder, had as a client the Trump campaign and other right-wing candidates. Progressives built this kind of infrastructure and tools for digital organizing and we have now lost that organizing edge. We are moving to identify other options for a CMS/CRM. As an under-resourced, member funded organization, this move will take time for us to carry out, but it is an important statement for us to make.